膽

See also: 胆

Translingual

Japanese	胆
Simplified	胆
Traditional	膽

Han character

膽 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月弓金口 (BNCR), four-corner 7726₁, composition ⿰月詹)

Descendants

• 胆

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 995, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29933
• Dae Jaweon: page 1446, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2117, character 7
• Unihan data for U+81BD

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Chinese

trad.		膽
simp.		胆

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 膽
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (詹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
甔	*toːm, *taːm, *taːms
擔	*taːm, *taːms
儋	*ʔl'aːm
聸	*taːm
膽	*taːmʔ
黵	*taːmʔ, *tjamʔ
澹	*daːm, *daːmʔ, *daːms
憺	*daːmʔ, *daːms
瞻	*tjam
詹	*tjam
蟾	*tjam, *djam
噡	*tjam
譫	*tjam, *daːb, *tjaːb
幨	*tʰjam, *tʰjams
襜	*tʰjam, *tʰjams
韂	*tʰjams
贍	*djams
檐	*lam
簷	*lam
舚	*tʰeːm, *tʰeːms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *taːmʔ) : semantic ⺼ (“body part”) + phonetic 詹 (OC *tjam).

Etymology

Austroasiatic (Schuessler, 2007); compare Proto-Vietic *lɔːm, Proto-Katuic *lɔɔm, Proto-Bahnaric *kləːm, etc. from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁ləəm ~ *t₁luəm "liver".

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 膽

1. (anatomy) gallbladder

   膽囊／胆囊  ―  dǎnnáng  ―  gall bladder

2. (figurative) guts; courage; bravery; strength; nerve

   大膽／大胆  ―  dàdǎn  ―  bold

   冇膽鬼／冇胆鬼 [Cantonese]  ―  mou⁵ daam² gwai² [Jyutping]  ―  coward

3. inner container; liner (of a thermos); bladder (of a ball)

Compounds

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Japanese

Shinjitai	胆
Kyūjitai	膽

Kanji

膽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 胆)

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Readings

• Go-on: たん (tan)
• Kan-on: たん (tan)
• Kun: きも (kimo, 膽)

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Korean

Hanja

膽 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 膽 (đảm)

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